Clothes-hanger.



D. 1). JONES. CLOTHES HANGER APPLICATION FILED MAY 9, 1912.

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DAVID I). JONES, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

CLOTHES-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 3, 1912.

Application filed May 9, 1912. Serial No. 696,144. V

Be it known that I, DAvID I). JoNEs, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and countof California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the class of clothes-hangers especially adaptedby reason be set up within a room,'-and therein adjusted to the available space, and to be conveniently operated by being lowered to enable the clothes to be hung and then raised up out of the way.

The object of my inventionis to provide a simple structure of this character, one which can be made at low cost and sold for a small price and which can be readily set up and knocked down, and which in use will be firm and rigid and can be elevated without interference, to the'full height possible in the apartment in which it is located.

To this end my invention consists in the novel construction of the hanger which I shall now fully describe, by reference to the accompanying drawings in which.the figure is a perspective view of my clothes-hanger. 1 is the main member of a frame. This, in its best form, is longitudinally extensible in orderto adjust it to thespace available in the room. For this purpose it is made in two sections, as shown, one section being shdable on the other by means of stirrups 2,

secured to one sect-ion and in which" the other.

section slides.

3 are the cross members of the frame. One of these is removably fitted to one of the sections of the main member by a stirrup 4 and the other is similarly fitted to the other section of the main member by a stirrup 5, said stirrups being controlled as to position by stops 6. On these cross members 3 are the guides 7 through which Iis n order to steady this frame and yet avoid any interference with its capability of being hoisted as high as the room in which it is placed will permit, I fit one end of the main member as shown, extends downwardly or depends from the main member and is removably fitted thereto by means of a stirrup 10 secured to the upper end of said leg and mto which the end of the main member fits. T0

of San Francisco and State- 21 on the top of the first 1 with the steadying leg 9. This,

this steadying leg 9 are secured eyes 11 which are fitted to slide upon a fixed vertical rail 12, the disposition of the eyes being such that the leg is well held to the rail and moves strictly parallel therewith, thereby.

steadying the frame and holding it horizontal, so. that 1t will not rock or tip under unequally disposed weight,

In apartments wherein it may be permitted, the rail 12 may be directly secured to the walls or between the floor and ceiling of the room and the hoisting devices may be similarly secured to walls or ceiling, but in houses where this would be prohibited, I provide two end posts 13. These posts are secured to the floor 14 of the room '15, by means of brackets 16 screwed To one of these posts .the rail 12 is'secure'd, as shown. .To a fixed fastening 17 at the top of the other posts 13 is secured one end of the hoisting line 18. tends down to and passes through a sheave 19 on the adjacent end of the main member 1. Thence the line extends longitudinally of the frame to and-through a sheave 20 on the opposite end of said main member. Thence it passes up to and through a sheave post 13,- and thence the fall of the line hangs down and is adapted to be fastened to a cleat 22 on said post.

To operate the portedby the lower eye 11 of the steadying leg 9 resting upon the lower fastened end of the rail 12, or on the floor. When the clothes are hung on the line 8, the hoisting line 18 is pulled upon, and the whole frame rises evenly and steadily on the rail 12 to the highest available level, there being nothing above the frame to interfere with its full elevation. In like manner it can can be easily dismembered for removal from the room, and may as readily be set up again. i

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. A clothes-hanger comprising a frame H device it is first lowered to. "within convenient reach being there supif desired the leg 9 may rest The line thence exbe lowered again. It

consisting of a mam member and cross members secured to the ends of the main member; a clothes-line carried by and extending between the cross members; asteadying leg secured to and depending from the end of the main member; a fixed vertical rail with of the main member; :a fixed vertical rail with which said; steadying leg is slidably connected; and hoisting mechanism for de 15 nected; and hoisting mechanism for elevating and lowering said frame.

2. A clothes-hanger comprising a frame consisting of a main member formed of sec- 'vatin'g'andlowering said frame. tions and stirrups in which said sections lon- In testimony whereof I have signed my gitudinally slide, and end cross members name to this specification in the presence of with stirrnps removably connecting them two subscribing Witnesses. i

With the 1113.111 member; a clothes-line carried by and extendingybetween 'the cross i DAVID JONES members; a steadying leg'having a stirrup 3 Witnesses: at its upper end by which it is removably WM. F. BOOTH,

fitted upon and is dependent from one, end D. B. RICHARDS.

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